coved

Verb (1)

cove (third-person singular simple present coves, present participle coving, simple past and past participle coved)

1. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
   • The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain

Verb (2)

cove (third-person singular simple present coves, present participle coving, simple past and past participle coved)

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) Of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs).
   • Moreover, the provident care of the tortoiſe in the generation, nouriſhment and preſervation of [h]er yooung, is vvoonderfull: for out ſhe goeth of the ſea, and laieth her egges or caſteth her ſpavvne upon the banke ſide; but being not able to cove or ſit upon them, nor to remaine herſelfe upon the...1603, Plutarch, “Whether Creatures be more Wise, They of the Land, or Those of the Water”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold...

   Synonyms:

   covie

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